Parallel Verses
World English Bible
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.
New American Standard Bible
But it will
King James Version
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
Holman Bible
However, it will not go well with the wicked,
International Standard Version
But things will not go well for the wicked person: he will not lengthen his life like a shadow, since he has no fear before God.
A Conservative Version
But it shall not be well with a wicked man, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow, because he did not fear before God.
American Standard Version
but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
Amplified
But it will not be well for the evil man, nor will he lengthen his days like a shadow, because he does not fear God.
Bible in Basic English
But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.
Darby Translation
but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days as a shadow, because he feareth not before God.
Julia Smith Translation
And it shall not be good to the unjust one; he shall not lengthen the days as a shadow, for he feared not from before the face of God.
King James 2000
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he fears not before God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not prolong [their] days, like the shadow; because there is no fearing {God's presence}.
Modern King James verseion
But it shall not be well with the wicked, nor shall he make his days longer like a shadow; because he does not fear before God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Again, as for the ungodly, it shall not be well with him, neither shall he prolong his days: but even as a shadow, so shall he be that feareth not God.
NET Bible
But it will not go well with the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.
New Heart English Bible
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.
The Emphasized Bible
but, well, shall it not be to the lawless man, neither shall he lengthen out his days like a shadow, - because he standeth not in awe before God.
Webster
But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
Youngs Literal Translation
And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.
Interlinear
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 8:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Although Evil Is Not Punished Swiftly, God Does Eventually Punish Sinners
12 Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him. 13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God. 14 There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
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Cross References
Job 14:2
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
Job 7:6-7
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 18:5
"Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.
Job 20:5
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
Job 21:30
that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
Psalm 11:5
Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
Psalm 39:5
Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
Psalm 55:23
But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
Isaiah 30:13
therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
Isaiah 57:21
"There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked."
Malachi 3:18
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.
Matthew 13:49-50
So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come forth, and separate the wicked from among the righteous,
John 5:29
and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.
James 4:14
Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
2 Peter 2:3
In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.